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Press of Byron S. Adams, Washinston, D. C. 



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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5th. 

Religious Services in Keunion (irounds (Camp Roosevelt). 

MONDAY, OCTOBER 6th. 

4.30 P. M. — Dedication Camp Roosevelt: Address, Hon. .Toii.v 
Hay. 

8 P. M.— Campfire, Convention Hall. 

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7th. 

9 A. M. — Ladies' Aid Society Sons of Veterans, Hall U. V. 1.., 

No. 910 Pennsylvania Ave., N. W. 
10 A. M. — Parade Naval Veterans, Ex-Prisoners of War. 

1 P. M.— Reception at Mother Bickerdyke Tent, Camp Roose- 

velt, by Mrs. Ellen S. Mussey and others. 

2 P. M. — Reunion of Women's Patriotic Orders, Camp Roose- 

velt, Farragut Tent, Mrs. Ellen S. Mussey, Chair- 
man. 
3-5 P. M. — Reception at Pension Office. 
8 P. M. — Welcome to Commander-in-Ch.ief of the Grand 
Army of the Republic and Auxiliary Bodies at 
Convention Hall. 

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8th. 

10 A. M.— Parade of Grand Army of the Republic and Review- 
by the President of the United States. 



Women's Receptions at Convention Hall. 
Music by Marine Band. 

7-8 P. M.— Ladies of G. A. R , Mrs. Emma Wall, National 
President, and Staff will receive General Ell Tor- 
rance, Commander-in-Chief Grand Army of the 
Republic, and Staff. 

8-9 P. M.— Woman's Relief Corps, Mrs. Calista Robinson Jones, 
National President, and Staff, Reception to General 
Ell Torrance, Commander-in-Chief of Grand Army 
of the Republic, and his Official Staff. 
9-10.30 P. M.— Women's Citizens Committee, Mrs. Ellen Spencer 
Mussey, Chairman, assisted by ladies of Com- 
mittee ; National Association Army Nurses Civil 
War, Mrs. Delia A. B. Fay, President, and Staff; 
Woman's Relief Corps, Mrs. Calista Robinson 
Jones, National President, and Staff; Ladies of 
the G. A. R., 3Irs. Emma Wall, National Presi- 
• dent, and Staff; Daughters of Veterans, Mrs. 
Elizabeth B. Stanley, National President, and 
Staff; Ladies' Aid Society Sons of Veterans, Mr:^. 
Lida Tomer Miller, National President, and Staff ; 
National Association Ladies' Naval Veterans, 
U. S. A., Mrs. Margaret B. Dixon, President, and 
Staff- Women's National Association Auxiliary 
to Union Ex-Prisoners of War, Mrs. Wm. Paul, 
President, and Staff ; National Relief Union of 
Union Veteran Union, Mrs. Belle S. Morgan, 
President, and Staff, will receive the Grand Army 
of the Republic, Naval Veterans U. S. A.: all 
other veteran organizations and auxiliary bodies. 



THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9th. 

9 A. M. — Convention National Association, Army Nurses of 
Civil War, Washington Club, 1710 I St., N. W. 
3.30 P. M. — Reception to visiting comrades by National Presi- 
dent, Mrs. Delia A. B. Fay, and Staff. 

9 A. M. — Twentieth Annual Convention, Woman's Relief 
Corps, Church of Our Father, Thirteenth and L 
Sts., N. W. 

1 P. M. — Lunch served in the Church bv the Department of 
Potomac, W. R. C. 



9 A. M. — Sixteenth Annual Convention, Ladies of G. A. R., 
Luther Memorial Church, Thomas Circle. 

1 P. M. — Lunch served by U. S. Grant Circle, Ladies of 
G. A. R., in Vermont Avenue Christian Church. 



9 A. M. — Thirteenth Annual Convention, Daughters of 
Veterans, Society Temple, Fifth and G Sts., N. W. 

1 P. M.— Lunch served by Auxiliary No. 32, Union Veteran 
Legion, in Society Temple. 

8 P. M. — Reception to visiting comrades by National Presi- 
dent, Mrs. Elizabeth B. Stanley, and Staff. 



10 A. M.-5 P. M.— Reception at Mother Bickerdyke Tent, Camp 
Roosevelt, by Mrs. EmmaSouthwick Brinton, 
assisted by Dr. Caroline Burkhardt, Miss 
Carolina Ransom, Mrs. Susan O. Verplanck 
and others. 

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10th. 

Conventions will meet same hour and place as on Thursday. Lunch 
will be served the same as first day. Reception at Mother Bickerdyke 
Tent same hours as on Thursday. 

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11th. 

9 A. M. — Convention Woman's Relief Corps. 

The Department of the Potomac Woman's Relief Corps, Mrs. Lida A. 
Oldroyd, Department President, and Staff, assisted by the Department, 
will receive at Wimodaughsis, 1403 New York Ave., N. W., from 
10 A. M. to 5 P. M. on Monday, October 6th ; Tuesday, October 7th ; 
Wednesday, October 8th ; Thursday, October 9th ; Friday, Octo- 
ber 10th. 

Headquarters Women's Citizens Committee, Mrs. Ellen Spencer 
Mussey, Chairman, Mrs, Laura V. McCullough, Secretary, at No. 1405 
New York Ave. Open to visitors desiring information from 10 A. M. 
to 5 P. M. during EncamiDment week. 



Katt0nal l^raiiiiiiartrrB of Kmmnt'fi (^nuutisatimia 



National Association Army Nurses of the Civil War, 

The Bancroft, Eighteenth and H Streets, Northwest. 



Woman's Relief Corps, 

The Ebbitt. 



Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, 

The Ebbitt. 



Daughters of Veterans, 

The Ebbitt. 



Ladies' Aid Society to the Sons of Veterans, 

The Ebbitt. 



National Association Ladies Naval Veterans, U. S. A., 

905 H Street, Northwest. 



Women's National Association Auxiliary to Union Ex=Prisoners 

of War, 



National Relief Union of the Union Veteran Union, 



(Eouunittons of Homnt'H Q^rgantsuttnns 



National Association Army Nurses of the Civil War, 

1710 I Street, Northwest. 



Woman's Relief Corps, 

Church of Our Father, Thirteenth and L Street?, Northwest. 



Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, 

Luther Memorial Church, Thomas Circle. 



Daughters of Veterans, 

Society Temple, N. W. Corner Fifth and G Streets, Northwest. 



Ladies' Aid Society to the Sons of Veterans. 

Hall Union Veteran Legion, 910 Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest. 



National Association Ladies Naval Veterans U. S. A. 

407 Fifteenth Street, Northwest. 



Women's National Association, Auxiliary to Union Ex=Prisoners 

of War, 

W. C. T. U. Rooms, 522 Sixth Street, Northwest. 



National Relief Union of the Union Veteran Union, 

Concordia Hall, Corner Sixth and E Streets, Northwest. 



36th national encampment 
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC 

(Uttt^miii* lE.vrnttiur (Unmmtttrr 



neadijuarters 1405 New York Avenue. 



B. H. Warxer, Chairniati, 
L. P. Shokmaker, First Vice-Chairman, 
CuNO H. Rudolph, Second Vice-Chairman, 
Clarence F. Xor.mext, Treasurer, 
Barry Bulkley, Secretary. 



Anderson, T. H. 
Andrews, R. P. 
Alexander, W. C. 
Bell, Chas. J. 
Brown, Aldis D. 
Brown, Chapin 
Burdette, .S S. 
Bingham, B. F. 
Bronson, W. S. 
Butler, M. C. 
Biddle, John 
Cook, Geo. W. 
Cox, W. V. 
Clark, A. P., Jr. 
Darneille, H. H. 
Dan lop, Geo. T. 
Danenhower, W. W. 
Dudley, W. W. 
Dyrenforth, M. 
Ed son, John Joy 
Fleming, Robert 
Farnsworth, Calvin 
Gibson, George 
Gude, \V. F. 
Gordon, W. A. 
Glover, Chas. 0. 
Harries, Geo. H. 
Hickling, D. Percy 
Hopkins, T. L. 
Hendricks, Arthur 
Hume, Frank 
Hege, S. B. 
Hay, E. B. 
Hahn, Wm. 
Howe, F. T. 
Hart, A. 

Heurich, Christian 
Johnson, V. Baldwin 
Knox, W. S. 



Kann, Lewis 

Larner, J. B. 

Macfarland, H. B. F. 

Mussey, Mrs. Ellen Spencer 

McElroy, John 

McLean, John R. 

Michael, W. H. 

Moore, John H. 

Norris, James L. 

Noyes, Thos. C. 

Nailor, Allison, Jr. 

Oyster, James F. 

Palmer, F. W. 

Parker, M. M. 

Pierce, Frank H. 

Raymond, Fiank K. 

Ross, John W. 

Smith, Thos. W. 

Spear, Ellis 

Saks, Isadore 

Stone, Israel W. 

Syme, C. H. 

Small, J. Henry 

Saunders, L. M. 

Staples, 0. G. 

Sylvester, Richard 

Shoppel, R. W. 

Studd, Colin 

Tanner, Corp. James 

Van Wickle, W. P. 

Woodward, S. W. 

Walsh, Thos. F. 

"Wine, Louis D. 

Wilkins, Beriah 

Wilson, John M. 

Woodard, H. F. 

Wolf, Simon 

Weller, M. I. 

Wilson, A. A. 



Womnt's (Eittzpus' (Eommttt^^B 



EXECUTIVE 

Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey, Chairman. 
Mrs. Rosamond B. Meacham, First Vice-Chairman. 
Mrs. Henrietta N. Rose, Second Vice-Chairmau. 
Mrs. Laura V. McCullough, Secretary. 



Annie W. Johnson, 
Laura A. Lemmon, 
Helena McCarthy, 
Mattie E. McClure, 
H. B. F. Macfarland, 
John McElroy, 
Charlotte E. Main, 
Wm. E. Mason, 
Helen B. Matthews, 
Emma E. Myers, 
Lida A. Oldroyd, 
Fanny Pomeroy, 
Libbey M. Porter, 
Louis P. Shoemaker, 
Clinton Smith, 
Wm. S. Spencer, 
Elizabeth B. Stanley, 
Mero L. Tanner, 
Eugene F. Ware, 
B. H. Warner, 
Ada H. Weiss, 
F. B. Wilson. 



Mrs. Isabel Worrell Ball, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. Joseph W. Babcock, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. Benjamin F. Bingham, 


Miss 


Mrs. Barry Bulkley, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. Lizzie W. Calver, 


Mrs. 


Miss Cornelia Clay, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. J. D, Croissant, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. John Dalzell, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. M. E. S. Davis, 


Miss 


Mrs. Jonathan P. Dolliver, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. Hazel Doyle, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. John Joy Edson, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. Helen A. Engle, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. H. Clay Evans, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. Charles W. Fairbanks, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. J. B. Foraker, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. Celynda Werner Ford, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, 


Mrs. 


Miss Emma M. Gillett, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. Mary Y. Goundie, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. U. S. Grant, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. E. A. Haines, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. Emma A. Hawkes, 





RECEPTION 

Mrs. U. S. Grant, Cliair))iau. 



Miss Clara Barton, 
Mrs. Henry C. Corbin, 
Mrs. J. B. Foraker, 
Mrs. James A. Garfield, 
Mrs. O. 0. Howard, 



Mrs. John A. Logan, 
Mrs. Winfield S. Schley, 
Mrs. Charles D. Sigsbee, 
Mrs. Ell Torrance. 



NATIONAL ASSOCIATION ARMY NURSES 
CIVIL WAR 

Mrs. Charlotte E. Main, Chairman. 

Mrs. Henrietta N. Rose, Vice-Chairman. 



Mrs. Ann E. Gridley, 
Mrs. Libbey M. Porter, 



Miss Kate Scott, 
Mrs. M. L. Tanner. 



BADGES 

Miss Helen B. Matthews, Chairman. 
Mrs. F. B. Wilson, Vice-Chairman. 



Miss Catherine Bates, 


Miss 


Mrs. Angela H. Bennett, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. Catherine G. Bollinger, 


Mrs. 


Miss Mary H. Brady, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. A. D. Brockett, 


Mrs. 


Miss Mary McKenzie Byrne, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. E. A. Cleaves, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. Julia A. Cox, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. Hannah E. Crosby, 


Mrs. 


Miss Nannie T. Daniel, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. Mary J. Davidson, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. Ada G. Dickerson, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. A. E. Dumble, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. Helen A. Engle, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. Rose E. Ferree, 


Mrs. 


Miss Maggie Fleming, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. Daniel Fraser, 


Mrs. 


Mi^s Frances G. French, 


Miss 


Mrs. Mary Ream Fuller, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. Marion E. Gibbon, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. Thos. R. Harney, 


Mrs. 


Miss Daisy B. Hege, 


Mrs. 


Miss Frances Hoey, 


Mrs. 


Miss Helen R. Holmes, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. Jean McK. Hoover, 





Louise Hopwood, 
Maria A. Houghton, 
Carrie Kent, 
Richard Kingsman, 
E. H. Klemroth, 
Emma C. Littlejohn, 
Louise Losekara, 
May Smith Marlow, 
Margaret L. B. O'Connell, 
Carrie H. Otis, 
L. H. Patterson, 
Kate Penfield, 
Delia C. Perham, 
Helen S. Rapley, 
James Robbins, 
Alice Sanderson, 
Electa E. Smith, 
Kate Smoot, 
Hannah B. Sperry, 
J. A. Vanderpoel, 
David White, 
James Purcell Worrell, 
Eleanor Wright^ 
Amelia Young. 



COURTESIES 

Miss Corn'elia Clav, Chair man. 
Mrs. Wm. S. Spescer, Vice- Chairman. 
Miss Mary B. Lewis, Secretary. 



Mrs. Cai'oline Bosley, 


Mrs. Elizabeth C. Montis. 


Mrs. Julia G. Burnett, 


Mrs. A. S. Odell, 


Mrs. Mary M. Carter, 


Mrs. 8arah Pittman, 


Mis. Ellen A. Cromwell, 


Miss Elizabeth Poole, 


Mrs. W. W. Danenhower, 


Mrs. Libbey M. Porter, 


Miss Nannie T. Daniel, 


Mrs. R. A. Pyles, 


Mrs. Wm. Diggs, 


Mrs. George U. Rose, 


Miss Anna Ferris, 


Miss Minnie Roth, 


Mrs. L. 31. Fero'dson, 


Miss Tillie Roth, 


Mrs. Celynda W. Ford, 


]\Iiss Mabel C. Scott, 


Mrs. Frances Head, 


Miss Kate M. Smoot, 


Mrs. Emily H. Hnssey, 


Mrs. Matilda R. Spragae, 


Mrs. E. W. Sumner Kittelle, 


Mrs. Harriet L. Vining, 


Miss Jane Knight, 


Mrs. E. M. Zane. 


Miss Lillian Lockwood, 





DAUGHTERS OF VETERANS 

Mrs. Elizabeth B. Stanley, Chairman. 
Mrs. Hazel Doyle, Vice-Chairfuan. 



Mrs. Lizzie Allen, 


Miss 


Miss Martha Allison, 


Mrs. 


Miss Angelina Beckman, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. Ellen Chaney, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. M. E. S. Davis, 


Miss 


Mrs. Mamie P. Dorsey, 


Miss 


Mrs. Mary McKee Greenstreet, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. Celynda Werner Ford, 


Mrs. 


Miss Harriet Hawley, 


Miss 


Mrs. Honora Hotliiger, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. CliflFord Howard, 


Miss 


Mrs. Georgia B. Johnson, 


Miss ' 



Alice Kimball, 
Florence M. Kervin, 
VA\-A Knight, 
Flora A. Lewis, 
Anne Lamborne, 
Sarah Lamborne, 
A. M. Little, 
Harriet Scribner, . 
Jennie M. Taylor. 
Ada H. Weiss, 
Mabel Whitcomb, 
Olea Wood. 



DECORATIONS 



Mrs. Ada H. Weiss, Chairman. 

Mrs. Emma E. Myers, Vice-Chairnian. 

Mrs. Mattie E. McClure, Secretary. 



Mrs. 


Lizzie Allen, 


Mrs. 


Emma C. Littlejohn, 


Mrs. 


Wm. Altberger, 


Mrs. 


A. B. McKenzie, 


Mrs. 


Anan Ball, 


Mrs. 


R. B. Meacham, 


Mrs, 


W. H. Bailey, 


Mrs. 


E. C. Montis, 


Mrs. 


Catherine G. Bollinger, 


Miss 


Elsie Moore, 


Mrs. 


M. D. Brockoven, 


Miss 


Olivia Moore, 


Mrs. 


Emma Donohue, 


Mrs. 


Mary A. Noerr, 


Mrs. 


Mamie P. Dorsey, 


Miss 


Gertrude Norton, 


Mrs. 


Helen A. Engle, 


Mrs. 


A. S. Odell, 


Mrs. 


Emma Ferguson, 


Mrs. 


0. V. Bettys, 


Miss Jane Gibson, 


Mrs. 


Hattie Roach, 


Mrs. 


H. J. Hoffliger, 


Miss 


Mary L. Smith, 


Mrs. 


J. E. N. Ingalls, 


Mrs. 


E. K. Temple, 


Mrs. 


Georgia B. Johnson, 


Mrs. 


Edwin Truell, 


Miss 


Marie Kearny, 


Mrs. 


Mary Tryon, 


Mrs. 


Agnes Keeler, 


Mrs. 


Harriet L. Vining, 


ISIrs. 


Ellen S. Knight, 


Mrs. 


J. A. West, 


Mrs. 


Mary A. Lamb, 


Mrs. 


Sarah G. B. Winslow, 


Mrs. 


Flora A. Lewis, 







FLOWERS 



Mr8. Mary V. Goundie, Chaimiaii. 
Mrs. Hei.ex a. EN(a>E, Vice-Chairuiai 



Mrs. Anan Ball, 

Mrs. Angela H. Bennett, 

Mrs M. Bradt, 

Miss Mary McKenzie Byrne, 

Mrs. Vina L. Calhoun, 

Mrs. Mary M. Carter, 

Mrs. Jennie Cusick, 

Mrs. Nannie G. Davis, 

Mrs. Sarah Dony, 

Mrs. Mamie P. Dorsey, 

Mrs. Edith Emmerson, 

Mrs. Emily Frisbie, 

Mrs. Rose L. Fryer, 

Mrs. J. Grunwell, 

Mrs. Kate Gude, 

Mrs. Mary E. Hall, 

Mrs. Lida J. Hart, 

Mrs. Lola Hauptman, 

Mrs. Dora Hendrix, 

Mrs. Helen Holmes, 

Mrs. Jean McK. Hoover, 

Mrs. A. Hutchins, 

Mrs. Susie R. Jacobs, 



Miss Marie Kearny, 
Miss Lola Keeler, 
Mrs. Emily Kilvert, 
Mrs. Emma J. Kistler, 
Mrs. J. Louis Loose, 
Mrs. Elizabeth Montis, 
Miss Kitty Montague, 
Mrs. Fred. W. Mitchell, 
Mrs. Mary O'Neil, 
Mrs. J. Parker, 
Mrs. Fannie M. Page, 
Dr. Adeline Portman, 
Mrs. Jennie S. Raub, 
Miss Belle C. Saunders, 
Miss Carrie L. Shields, 
Miss Nellie Shields, 
Mrs. Josephine Sibold, 
Miss Clara Stewart, 
Mrs. :\L Traver, 
Mrs. E. K. Temple, 
Mrs. S. E. Van Deusen, 
Mrs. Mary Walling, 
Mrs. J. A. West. 



HALLS 



Mrs. M. E. S. Davis, Chairvian. 
Mrs. J. D. Croissant, Vice-Cliairman. 



Mrs. Wm. Allison, 

Mrs. Mary F. Case, 

Mrs. Appleton P. Clark, Jr. 

Mrs. C. S. Davis, 

Mrs. Celynda W. Ford, 



Mrs. Abbie P. McNulty, 
]\Irs. Harriet L. Scribner, 
Mrs. Eugene E. Stevens, 
Mrs. Horace Warner. 



LADIES OF THE G. A. R. 

Mrs. Emma A. Hawkes, Chairman. 
Mrs. Laura A. Lemmon, Vtce-Chairviaii. 
Mrs. Dell F. Wright, Secretary. 



Mrs. 


Florence Barringer, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. 


Catherine G. Bollinger, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. 


Alice Burgess, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. 


Fannie Calvert, 


Mrs. 


]Mrs. 


Frances M. Cheney, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. 


Mary Engle, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. 


Belle H. Gibson, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. 


Mary E. Hale, 


Mrs. 


Miss 


Emma F. Haywood, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. 


Emma Hempler, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. 


E:nma E. Holbrook, 


Mrs. 


Mrs. 


Josephine A. Johnston, 


Mrs. 



Emma J. Kistler, 
Villa J. Lewis, 
Louisa C. Loeffler, 
Mary E. McKenna, 
Mary O'Neal, 
Fannie M. Page, 
Addie R. Pei'kins, 
Maude Rudolph, 
Laura Seymour, 
H. E. Shelley, 
Sarah Turnbull, 
Fannie E. Worden. 



PRESS 

Mrs. IsAiiEL Worrell Ball, Chairman. 
Miss Helena McCarthy, Vice-Chairman. 



JMiss Helen Y. Boswell, 
3Iiss Daisy Joyce, 



Miss Nannie Lancaster, 
Mrs. Marie Schrader 



PUBLIC COMFORT 



Mrs. Lizzie W. Calver, Chairuia?!. 
Mrs. Fanny G. Pomeroy, Vice-Clnurman. 
Miss Lillian Calver, Secretary. 



Mrs. 


Margaret M. Armour, 


Mrs. Sidney Jacobs, 


Mrs. 


Anna Baden, 


Mrs. Win. King, 


Mrs. 


Wm. M. Bass, 


Mrs. Margaret Knapp, 


Mrs. 


E. G. Beall, 


Mrs. Sarah La Fctra, 


Mrs. 


Rose E. Brackett, 


Miss Jennie Manning, 


Mrs. 


George Brown, 


Mrs. Charles Parker, 


Mrs. 


Catherine Case, 


Mrs. Charles M. Pepper, 


Mrs. 


Ida L. Chase, 


Mrs. N, B. Prentice, 


Mrs. 


W. H. Crook, 


Mrs. Ida Schwegler, 


Mrs. 


Martha Cutler, 


Mrs. Electa E. Smith, 


Mrs. 


A. Duffy, 


Mrs. George Smith, 


Mrs. 


Celestia Ferris, 


Mrs. Matilda R. Sprague, 


Mrs. 


Ehiiira Foley, 


Mrs. George Street, 


Mrs. 


J. R. Gilbert, 


Miss Maud Thomas, 


Mrs. 


Alice Goodacre, 


Mrs. Mary Tryon, 


Mrs. 


Harry T. Guss, 


Mrs. Hester Watson, 


Mrs. 


Alfred Hawley, 


Mrs. Simon Wolf, 


Mrs. 


Dora B. Hendrix, 


Mrs. Alfred Wood, 


Mrs. 


M. J. Hull, 


Mrs. Mary A. Young. 



WOMAN^S RELIEF CORPS 

Mrs. Lid a A. Oldroyd, Chairman. 
Mrs. Annie W. Johnson, Vice-Chainnan. 
Mrs. Katherine M. Phillips, Secretary. 
Mrs. Mattie E. McClure, Treasurer. 



Mrs. Lizzie Abernatliy, 


Miss Tiliie A. Dunham, 


Mrs. Mary Adams, 


Mrs. Nora Edgar, 


Mrs. Nora B. Atkinson, 


Mrs. Sarah E. Edwards, 


Mrs. Cornelia Avery, 


Mrs. Emma S. Ellis, 


Mrs. Isabel Worrell Ball, 


Mrs. Addie Feathers, 


Mrs. Elizabeth Barber, 


Mrs. Emma Ferguson, 


Mrs. Eraoc-es Bingbam, 


Mrs. Hannah Flaherty, 


Mrs. Armenia Braden, 


Mrs. Mary Flint, 


Mrs. J. L. Bradley, 


Mrs. Elmira Foley, 


l\Irs. Jane Brideban, 


Mrs. Cecelia Ford, 


Mrs. Emma M. Bromwell, 


Mrs. Miranda Fuller, 


iMiss Carrie Brookfield, 


Mrs. Margaret Galliger, 


Mrs. Racbel A. Brooks, 


Miss Mary Glennan, 


Mrs. Jessie Bruner, 


Mrs. Addie Glover, 


Mrs. Marion G. Burch, 


Mrs. Mary Gorham 


Mrs. Alice Burgess, 


Mrs. Mary V. Goundie, 


Mrs. Cbristina Butcher, 


Mrs. Lucie B. Graham, 


Mrs. Vina L. Calhoun, 


Mrs. Marion Gregory, 


Mrs. Sue M. Carey, 


Mrs. Mary E. Hall, 


Mrs. Mary M. Carter, 


Mrs. Anna Sanborn Hamilton 


Mrs. Ida L. Chase, 


Mrs. S. E. Hamilton, 


Miss Lulu S. Chase, 


Mrs. Mary C. Hanen, 


Mrs. Bessie Boone Cheshire, 


Mrs. Maria Hare, 


Mrs. Nettie A. Cole, 


Mrs. Lida J. Hart, 


Mrs. Julia C. Collier, 


Mrs. Lola Hauptman, 


Mrs. Mollie L. Crandal, 


Mrs. Emma Hempler, 


Mrs. Ellen H. Croggan, 


Mrs. Sarah Hill, 


Mrs. Jennie Cusick, 


Mrs. Anna Hoagland, 


Mrs. Nannie G. Davis, 


Mrs. Mary Hogue, 


Miss Annie De la Vergne, 


Mrs. Frances T. Holmes, 


Mrs. Hannah J. Devoe, 


Mrs. Mary Honn, 


Mrs. Ada G. Dickerson. 


Mrs. Josepha Houghton, 


Mrs. Elizabeth Donehoo, 


Mrs. Annie C. Hutchins, 


Mrs. Mamie P. Dorsey, 


Mrs. Susie R. Jacobs, 


Miss Mary Dow, 


Mrs. Maria L. Jordan, 



Mrs. Agnes L. Keeler, Mrs. 

Miss Lola Keeler, Mrs. 

Mrs. Alice King, Mrs. 

Mrs. Vannette S. Kullman, Mrs. 

Mrs. Mary E. Lattin, Mrs. 

Miss Lizzie Lenman, Mrs. 

Mrs. Marian M. Lewis, Mrs. 

Mrs. Emma C. Littlejohn, Mrs. 

Mrs. Inez Lyons, Mrs. 

Mrs. Jane McLean, Mrs. 

Mrs. Katherine McMonigal, Mrs. 

Mrs. Clarinda Marks, ]Mrs. 

Mrs. Rosamond B. Meacham, Mrs. 

Mrs. Margaret Miller, Mrs. 

Mrs. Elizabeth C. Montis, Mrs. 

Mrs. Gertrude Morgan, Mrs. 

Mrs. S. E. Morrison, Mrs. 

Mrs. Eliza F. Naylor, Miss 

Mrs. Emma L. Newton, Mrs. 

Mrs. Rosa Noske, Mrs. 

Mrs. Augusta B. Palmer, Mrs. 

Mrs. Mary E. Peck, Mrs. 

Mrs. Nellie C. Quill, Mrs. 

Mrs. Annie E. Rank, Mrs. 

Mrs. Jennie Raub, Mrs. 

Mrs. Frances Reynolds, Mrs. 

Mrs. Julia Roberts, Mrs. 
Mrs. Ruth E. Roberts, 



Susie Rose, 
Laura Seymour, 
Eliza Shallenberger, 
Mary C. Shank, 
Helen Smith, 
Matilda R. Sprague, 
Augusta Starkey, 
Helen Stone, 
Genie Street, 
Corinne Stricklen, 
Mary E. Taflf, 
Alice Talley, 
A. P. Tasker, 
Margaret B. Tew. 
Mary Thatcher, 
Maggie Thompson, 
Jennie T. Thomson, 
Josephine Tiefenthaler, 
Travers, 
Sarah Turnbull, 
Sarah Van Doren, 
Margaret Walker, 
Emma V. Webster, 
Jennie Wheeler, 
Mary E. Whitehead, 
Matilda S. Wilkins, 
Frances E. Worden. 




ELLEN SPENCER MUSSEY 

Chaihmax Women's Citizkxs Committee 

oGth G. a. R. Excampmext. 



The Women of the Civil War 



Ellen Spencer Mussey 




" The army tvhose bayonets ivere glittering needles, advanced 
with more unbroken ranks, and exerted almost a greater 
moral force than the army that carried loaded muskets.'' — 
Dr. Henry W. Bellows. 

I HE women who remained at the hearth- 
stone were happ)' in keeping the men 
in the field in toucli with all that per- 
tained to the home by constant, sys- 
tematic correspondence. By this means, 
the soldiers not only had the support of 
home sympathy, but the return letters from the men 
established a more personal knowledge of events and con- 
ditions than could Iiave been attained by the public 
press as the only means of communication. This sympa- 
thetic unity between the field and the home formed a 
public opinion not only corrective of, but an inspiration 
to, our Governmental policy. It is said that the average 
correspondence of some regiments was a thousand letters 
a week, mailed, and as many more received. What won- 
der that with the home ties so nourished day by day, 
at the end of four years of service in the field the 
victors returned home ready to take up tije duties of the 
citizen with the same fervor which they had shown in 
military life. Every regiment that marched to the front 
took with it forever the joy of mothers, wives and sweet- 
hearts, who, like the Spartan mothers of old, laid on the 
altar of Liberty their dearest treasures. This sacrifice was 



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followed not infrequently by the burdens of grinding 
poverty and loneliness, until death came as a happy 
release. Not all the names of the heroines of the Civil 
War are writ on the pages of fame, but many linger only 
as unwritten traditions m tlieir own family circles. 

Abraham Lincoln once said on a public occasion : "I 
am not accustomed to use the language of eulogy. I 
have never studied the art of paying compliments to 
women. But I must say that if all that has been said by 
orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise 
of women w^as applied to the women of America, it would 
not do them justice for their conduct during this war. I 
will close by saying, God bless the women of America." 

The patriotic spirit of that day carried the women to 
the loftiest height of devotion, and they courted occasion 
to do and to suffer for the beloved country. The change 
from peace to war was rapid, but the regeneration of the 
women was quite as swift. In those days there were no 
uppermost places ; the idch and the poor alike scraped 
lint and rolled bandages for the suffering soldiers. 

When the Massachusetts troops at the front wanted 
shirts, all feminine Boston went to Union Hall and made 
shirts at the rate of a thousand a day. In suburban 
places the bells of the town hall mustered the. seam- 
stresses to duty. Not always were these energies well 
directed, for who does not remember the white Have- 
locks of all sizes and shapes sent in great numbers to the 
soldiers at the front during the first hot summer of serv- 
ice ; and how the victims of this embarrassing kindness 
took refuge in the ridicule which followed when a whole 
regiment appeared wearing the despised Havelocks as 
nightcaps, turbans or sunbonnets. 

Here at the Capital the loyal hom.es were open to 
every sufferer wearing the blue. The first woman to 
perform any work directly for the comfort of the soldier 



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of 1861 was ^Irs. Almira Fales, of Washington, who 
began in December, 1860, to prepare lint and stores for 
the hospitals not yet in existence. 

The daily papers of Washington of 1861-5 contained 
constant allnsions to the devotion of the loyal women of 
the Capital in the way of thanks from the soldiers in the 
hospitals. Of these women Mrs. Fales was the first, and 
Vinnie Ream, now Mrs. Hoxie, one of the youngest. The 
latter's sister, Mrs. Perry Fuller, writes : " During all this 
time every house in Washington where there was any 
sympathy with the Union cause kept open house, and the 
boys in blue were received and entertained when they 
came out of the hospitals too weak to go to the front, or, 
if discharged, to go to their distant homes. Our house 
was never without such inmates, sometimes quite exhaust- 
ing its elastic capacity"; and the same could be truthfully 
said of thousands of loyal homes. 

F'rom revolutionary times to 1861, there was no 
event of national importance calling for the assistance of 
women ; but the traditions of our grandmothers lingered 
to the third generation and the shot fired on Fort Sumter 
called womeUjtoo, to heroic deeds — at home, in the hospi- 
tal and finally upon the field. It is the history of modern 
warfare in civilized countries, that women's efforts to 
ameliorate the conditions of war have in the beginning- 
met with the most determined opposition from military 
officials, especially those of the hospital service ; but 
fortunately woman is gifted with great pertinacity of 
purpose, and in the end doubters have been convinced of 
their error of judgment by practical demonstration of 
the superior qualifications of woman as a nurse, and of 
her adaptability to the requirements of military hospitals 
and diet kitchens. In the Civil War every woman carried 
a mother's heart, and the sick and wounded soldier was 
her child. There are women still among us who walked 



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the hospitals of the Capital day by day, coming with 
baskets kiden with the dehcacies of home cooking and 
homely remedies for every ache and pain. 

The Woman's Central Association of Relief antedated 
the Sanitary Commission and was organized at Cooper 
Union, New York City, April 29, 1861, at a meeting 
attended by between three and four thousand men and 
women, the Hon. David Dudley Field presiding. From 
the first it worked in unity with the Govern nient. It fur- 
nished nurses for the service and through its apj)eal, 
supplies began to pour in an unbroken stream to the end 
of the war. The oflftce, No. 10 Cooper Union, was busy 
day and night receiving, unpacking and repacking sys- 
tematically for hospitals. A vast correspondence, reports 
and all the details of a great receiving and shipping 
station were to be attended to. 

Every woman, and there were many hundreds from 
first to last, engaged in this work learned the necessity of 
precision. So much of the work l)eing done by volunteer 
service, the administrative expenses were at the minimum 
while the value of the sup[)lies distributed reached many 
millions of dollars. 

In the Sanitary Commission of the C!ivil War, men and 
women co-operated effectively and without jealousy, its 
agents penetrating to the smallest hamlet, the humblest 
home, and likewise to the heart and purse strings of the 
millionaire. The great fairs and entertainments in the 
large cities were the social features of the Civil War. 

The woman whose official position, and capacity to 
organize, gave her first rank during the Civil War was 
Dorothea L. Dix, and as Dr. Bellows has said, " history 
will preserve her name long after others have sunk into 
oblivion." What Florence Nightingale did in the 
Crimean War, Dorothea Dix did for the Union army. 
Having worked effectively for thirty years in behalf of the 



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criminal classes and the insane, her executive ability and 
power of organization were well known. Hon. Simon 
Cameron, Secretary of War, on June 10, 1861, 
appointed her Superintendent of Female Nurses ; all 
women except hospital matrons, regularly employed in 
the hospitals and entitled to pay, were appointed by her. 
She required that a woman should be no longer young, 
plain of feature and attire, of good health and of unim- 
peachable moral character. There being no precedent for 
such an appointment as Miss Dix's, neither her duties 
nor her authority were defined, and her appointment of 
nurses was regulated by her own estimate of the appli- 
cant's prospective usefulness. On the 29th of October, 
1863, the War Department issued the following order : 

" General Oeders, No. 351. 
" War Department, Adjt. General's Office,. 
" WashingtOxN, October 29th, 186S. 

" The employment of women nurses in the United 
States General Hos])itals will in future be strictly gov- 
erned by the following rules : 

" L Persons approved by Miss Dix, or her authorized 
agents, will receive from her, or them, 'certificates of 
approval,' which must be countersigned by Medical 
Directors upon their assignment to duty as nurses within 
their Departments. 

" 2. Assignments of ' women nurses' to duty in Gen- 
eral Hospitals will only be made upon application by the 
Surgeons in charge, through Medical Directors, to Miss 
Dix or her agents, for the number they require, not 
exceeding one to every thirty beds. 

" 3. No females, except Hospital Matrons, \\\\\ be 
employed in General Hospitals, or, after December 31, 
1863, borne upon the muster and pay rolls, without such 
certificates of approval and regular assignment, unless 
specially api)ointed by the Surgeon-General. 

" 4. Women nurses, while on duty in General Hospitals^ 
are under the exclusive control of the senior medical 
officer, who will direct their several duties, and may be 



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discharged by him when considered supernumerary, or, 
for incompetency, insubordination, or violation of his 
orders. Such discharge, with the reasons therefor, being 
endorsed upon the certihcate, will be at once returned to 
Miss Dix. 

" By order of the Secretary of War : 

" E. D. TOWNSEND, 

" Assistaiit Adjutant-General." 

By this order authority was bestowed on Miss Dix, 
but no power to enforce obedience : yet under all these 
embarrassments she did a work that will stand as her 
enduring monument. Under the appointment by Sec- 
retary Cameron, afterward ratified by Secretary Stanton, 
Miss Dix appointed several hundred nurses, all Protestant 
and middle aged, who, with rare exceptions, proved them- 
selves worthy of the confidence reposed in them. Miss 
Dix rented two large houses situated on the east side of 
Fifteenth Street, just north of New York Avenue, as a 
depot for sanitary supplies sent to her care, and also houses 
for the rest and refreshment of nurses and convalescent 
soldiers, one of these being on the S. E. corner of F and 
Twelfth Streets, and the other, 1405 New York Avenue, 
now the headquarters of the Citizens' Committee for the 
36th G. A. R. Encampment. She provided ambulances, 
and employed two secretaries, meeting all these expenses 
from her private purse, and steadily refused all compen- 
sation for her services. 

Some of the surgeons of the Army preferred to employ 
Sisters of Charity (who also were truly Angels of Mercy) 
in their hospitals, contrary to Miss Dix's views as super- 
intendent of nurses, but these differences but brought out 
her singleness of purpose and her ability to rise above 
personal jealousies, for her large stores were as readily 
dispensed for the use of these hospitals as for those who 
employed the nurses approved by her. 



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After the close of the war she remained eighteen 
months in Washington to fulfill promises made to dying 
soldiers to aid their widows and orphans. 

Miss Dix refused all offers of compensation for her 
services, or reimbursement of money expended, and when 
Secretary Stanton asked her if she would like an appro- 
priation by Congress, she replied, " I want nothing but a 
fiag of my country." He at once ordered a stand of the 
National Colors of the finest silk, and this was bequeathed 
by Miss Dix to Harvard College, where it is now draped 
over the main portal of Memorial Hall. 

During her lifetime, of the many homes, hospitals and 
asylums for the insane who owe their existence to her, 
none bore her name, for she loved not notoriety, but the 
whole human race. The suffering ones were her children, 
and Ifer life was spent in deeds of mercy for them. Her 
monument is imperisiiable, and not builded with hands, 
but in the hearts of her countrymen and writ in the lasting 
annals of her countr3-'s history. 

It would be impossible in this short sketch to speak 
of the many noble women whom Miss Dix enrolled as 
nurses, and who shared the privations of the private 
soldier without the stimulus of comradeship, and the 
excitement of battle and the skirmish line. Miss Harriet 
P. Dame went into the service June 6, 1861, with the first 
New Hampshire Volunteers and remained until December, 
1865, the longest service of any nurse of the Civil War, 
Dr. Caroline Burkhardt being second only to her in 
length of service. Miss Dame was taken prisoner at the 
second battle of Bull Run, and also later while with the 
Army of the James, and she saw even more service in 
the field than the gallant First New Hampshire, for she 
was by reason of peculiar fitness often borrowed for special 
duty by those high in authority. One of these occasions 



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was when Surgeon-General Barnes sent her to Charleston, 
S. C, to inquire into the conditions there, and as a result 
on her recommendation the hospital ships Arno and 
Fulton were fitted out. 

Colonel Oilman Marston said of her, " She was the 
bravest woman I ever saw. I saw her stand not far 
behind the guns, watching the men as they dropped about 
her, oifering to them aid, never flinching, and I saw a 
terror-stricken man hide behind her to escape the frag- 
ments of bursting shells." At the close of the war after 
a continuous service of four years and eight months with- 
out a day's furlough she returned with her regiment and 
at the review by the Governor of New Hampshire rode 
mounted by the Colonel's side. 

Mrs. Anne E. Gridley was also one of the nurses 
appointed by Miss Dix and did noble service, but her name 
will be known as the mother of the gallant naval officer 
who lost his life early in the Spanish war, Capt. Charles 
Vernon Gridley, the commander of the flagship Oli/mpia 
in the Battle of Manila Bay. 

Also of Miss Dix's nurses were numbered the two Edson 
sisters, Sarah and Susan, both women of the Western 
Reserve who were ready for any emergency and knew not 
fatigue in well doing. 

It is something to remember that the poor pittance of 
forty cents a day and soldier's rations constituted the pay 
of these army nurses of 1861-5. 

The first woman to visit the camps and hospitals of 
the West was Miss Mary J. Saffbrd, who was known as the 
" Cairo Angel." She was the tender nurse in the hospital, 
or the brave woman on the field, going forward in the 
face of the enemy's guns waving her handkerchief above 
her head as a flag of truce that she might minister to the 
wounded and dying. 



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Of those who chose to work on independent lines none 

showed more executive abihty than Miss Clara Barton. 

Her labors began on April 21, 1861, when she proceeded 

with baskets of cooked provisions to the Capitol to minister 

to the wants of the Sixth Massachusetts Militia which had 

just arrived without proper commissary arrangements. 

From this day her fame spread, and she became a private 

distributing bureau at Washington for friends and organi- 

izations to whom she was known ; it being said that during 

the summer of 1865 she frequently had from these sources 

a stock on hand of five tons in quantity. While receiving 

no official recognition from the Government yet the value 

of her services was acknowledged by high officials who 

furnished storage and transportation for her supplies as 

occasion made it expedient. She soon saw the necessity 

of carrying these supplies to the front for use in crucial 

moments, and followed with loaded army wagon the march 

of General McClellan on Sunday, September 14, 1862, and 

through many long hot days traveled the dusty roads of 

Maryland that led to the Valley of Antietam. With an 

ever-increasing train of army wagons and ambulances she 

followed the Army through the Shenandoah campaign, 

and on to Fredericksburg, being [)ractically the general 

purveyor for the sick of the Ninth Army Corps. With 

only brief periods of rest in the North, Miss Barton 

continued her work on these lines, ending her services 

with the Army of the James when General B. F. Butler 

gave her work a recognized position which enabled her 

to do much more than was otherwise possible for the 

comfort of that army during the campaign of 1864-5. 

At the close of the war Miss Barton organized at her 
own expense a Bureau of Records of Missing Men of the 
Armies of the United States. She collected rolls of pris- 
oners, hospital records, records of burials in Rebel prisons 



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and elsewhere, and throngh the intervention of General 
E. D. Mussey, then Military Secretary to President 
Johnson, these lists were printed at the Government 
Printing Office and circulated as government documents. 
The definite information thus brought to the homes of 
the fate of loved ones was the only consolation possible 
under the sad circumstances. Having obtained tiiese 
prison lists Miss Barton discovered a record of the dead 
buried at Andersonville prison, and at tiie request of the 
Secretary of War she assisted the Quartermaster's 
Department in laying out the grounds as a cemetery and 
in identifying and placing suitable head-boards at all the 
thirteen thousand graves, except about four hundred who 
are still numbered as " Unknown." 

The value of Miss Barton's work was afterwards recog- 
nized by Congress, Hon. Henry Wilson, of Massachu- 
setts, moving an appropriation of $15,000 to reimburse 
her for expenditures and for services, which appropria- 
tion passed both Houses by unanimous vote. 

Mention must also be made of Helen Louise Gilson, of 
Boston, Mass., who by reason of her youth was not 
accepted as a nurse by Miss Dix. She worked with the 
Auxiliary Relief Corps very acceptably and established 
the first colored hospital at City Point in the summer of 
1864. The number of wounded among the colored troops 
of the Army of the Potomac was very large from the mine 
explosions and the engagements around Petersburg. The 
temporary hospital was inadequate and the suffering 
great. There were no volunteers for this work of relief of 
the brave soldiers so lately slaves, and Miss Gilson 
volunteered, fully aware of tiie official prejudice to be met 
and overcome. She added to the hospital kitchen her 
method of special diet ; taught nurses and enforced clean- 
liness, order, and system in the daily routine. The death- 



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rate lessened in consequence and the hospital took rank 
with the best in the department. At this date it is hardly 
possible to realize the obstacles to be overcome in such 
work, for today the colored man has earned his spurs as 
a gallant soldier in two wars, and his comfort is given in 
military life the same consideration as that of his white 
Ijrother. 

Mrs. Mary A. Livermore did much by her facile pen 
to arouse the women of the country to the need of their 
assistance. In 1862, in company with Mrs. Hoge, she 
traveled over the Northwest, organizing aid societies, and 
planned the following year the great Northwestern 
Sanitary Fair, the first of the series of similar fairs in the 
North. 

Mrs. Mary A. Bickerdyke, known to the Western Army 
as " Mother Bickerdyke, ""~was unique in her methods, of 
extraordinary ability and of indomitable will. She 
labored for the private soldier. There were others as 
tender and as devoted as she in ministering to suffering, 
but she had no peer in her systematic, original methods 
of work in camp and hospital, and her ingenuity in 
bringing culprits to justice furnished a fund of amusement 
to all except the evil-doers. 

After the battle of Shiloh a surgeon going to the rear 
found Mother Bickerdyke attired in a gra}' overcoat and 
soft slouch hat where she had set up her kettles and was 
dispensing hot soup to fainting wounded men, and 
inquired under whose authority she was working, to 
which she replied without hesitation : " I have received 
my authority from God Almighty ; have you any higher 
rank than that ? " 

There was no murmur from her in those months of 
cold and want and suffering in the last of 1863 at Look- 
out Mountain and Missionary Bidge, and it was then she 



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announced lier plan of publishing a " starvation cook 
book to make delicious soups out of nothing." If any 
one could do this, she could. She followed Sherman on 
his march to the sea. Later she went to the rescue of 
the Anderson vi lie prisoners, remaining with them so 
long as there was one to need her care. 

While the number of women who saw service as soldiers 
during the Civil War numbered several hundred, yet it 
is not of them we will speak here, for our sympathy must 
ever be with the woman who would heal, not wound. 
But we think with pride of brave Barbara Fritsche, of 
Fredericktown ; of sweet Jenny Wade, of Gettysburg, 
whose fair young breast was cruelly torn by shell and 
shot while making bread for the boys in blue, and of 
stately Madame Turchen^ or Hetty McEwen, of Nash- 
ville. Nor can we allow the name of Anna Ella Carroll, 
a descendant of the Carrolls of CarroUton of revolutionary 
fame, to sink into oblivion, for it has been decided judi- 
cially that the plan of the Tennessee campaign was the 
child of her keen brain and that she was entitled to com- 
pensation therefor. Justice came late in tliis case as in 
many others, and was only won from a Government pre- 
occupied with other cares many along year after the bat- 
tles of that campaign were won, Richmond had fallen 
and the countr}^ united ! 

The Civil War found the woman of this country with 
a horizon bounded by her own roof tree, but the mother 
ear is quick to hear the wail of the child in distress no 
matter whether he lies in his own soft bed at home or 
languishes in prisons or moans upon the battlefield. It 
was the inothei' heart in every woman which lead her to 
respond to the needs of the nation, and to learn that she 
too was a citizen, and that upon her devolved a duty. 
How well this duty was performed, this brief sketch will 



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hardly tell. But woman herself by her brave endeavor 
in the Civil War came into a larger life, and now she 
knows that there are other roof trees than her own, and 
that humanity is one great Brotherhood in which woman 
as well as man has a part to do. Like Mother Bickerdyke 
of blessed memory, she received her authority from God 
Almighty. As said Abraham Lincoln so said the soldiers 
of 1861-5 : " God bless the women of America ". 



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®HE house at 5J0 Tenth Street, Northwest, consecrated 
by tlie last expiring breaths of the great Lincohi, has 
been purchased by tlie Government, to be preserved 
from the ravages of time. Since 181)3 it has contained the 
Oldroyd Lincoln Memorial Collection, which consists of rare 
and precious relics of the martyred President. There is the 
furniture hallowed by association with Lincoln from the time 
he went to housekeeping in Springfield, in 1844, to his depar- 
ture for the White House, in 18(31. This vast collection 
extends through all the periods of Mr. Lincoln's life and 
forms an almost complete history of those eventful years. 
Congress has been asked to make an appropriation by which 
this historic house and collection may be opened free to the 
public. At the present time an admission of 25 cents is 
charged to defray expenses. History does not record a name 
as universally revered in all lands to-day as that of Abraham 
Lincoln, and it is but fitting that this memorial should be 
made, not only from a historical point of view% but also 
because of the world-wide interest shown in the study of his 
character and career. Free access to this house and collection 
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